Kant's transcendental imagination
By: by Gary Banham.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804; Knowledge, Theory of; Causation; Reason; Judgment; Neo-Kantianism
Description: The interpretation of the central arguments of the Transcendental Analytic is the major question of Kantian scholarship and this work contributes an original account of these arguments as based on an exposition of transcendental synthesis. The relationship between intuition, synthesis and concepts requires, Gary Banham argues, an analysis of the synthesis of imagination, as this synthesis provides the only viable strategy for the deduction of pure concepts. It is further argued that this analysis of transcendental synthesis provides the key to the distinction between mathematical and dynamical principles and the book culminates with a metaphysical reading of the argument of the Analogies. Taking seriously the contributions of analytic readers of the Critique, this work nonetheless departs form their conclusions by suggesting that the understanding of judgment and consciousness is dependent on the grasp of synthesis and concludes by arguing that Kant's work is a contribution to ontology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Synthesis and Intuition
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Judgment and Austerity
pagenum: 21; label: 3
title: Apperception and Synthesis
pagenum: 56; label: 4
title: Synthesis and Imagination
pagenum: 96; label: 5
title: Schematism and Imagination
pagenum: 154; label: 6
title: Synthesis, Intuition and Mathematics
pagenum: 167; label: 7
title: Substance, Causality and Community
pagenum: 226